[b][u]The Return of the Summer Rays[/u][/b]

And so many events have already taken place across the continent that has created more ripples than previously expected. First to note is the poor state that most colonial fleets find themselves in. Whilst most have now landed it will take another season before the first news will arrive back, however initial reports are not good. It seems overcrowding was a very serious problem. Meanwhile the world has not been kind to the greedy expansionism of the Lancian Empire. The first piece of information was the rudely penned, open, letter to Lancia informing the nation that the monopolisation of an entire nation to expand one’s own interests is frowned upon greatly in Parra. It remains a competitive and strong power due to its fierce competition. Mass acquisitions have led to the following sanctions…
-All Lancian Businesses and citizens are outlawed from owning land or businesses within Parra for 2 years.
-All businesses that had any shareholders of Lancian citizenship have been possessed by Parra, a valuation of each business has been given and the total cost was refunded. 
-Finally no Lancian goods or raw produce is to be imported into Parra for the next 2 years, even goods from other nations that use Lancian raw materials.
Furthermore for the Lancian nation the people are in a state of disillusion. Whilst flyers on the greatness of the Empire have been handed out and money has been invested into helping those less fortunate the masses feel that the Empire is becoming Despotic in its efforts to gain power, furthermore the nobility are losing faith in the Kaiser to perform his duty in the interests of the people (More specifically the rich). Whilst the stability has not dropped it is close to dropping. Finally mixed news on the Nutr situation, the scout force has been discovered, sent not so long ago into Nutr land. The entire force was found massacred in a large forest. It seemed that they were studied for a long time, left to their own devices whilst being directed away from Nutr military buildings. However with the decleration of war it seemed that the scouts were now a symbol to be used against Lancia. The good news being that the supply lines are now safe, the rear guard action worked to perfection and the paramilitaries are broken as an army like fighting force. However they still remain as guerrilla groups. It is also feared if the rear guard were to return to the fight that the groups would carry on from where they left off.

Good news in Argentaurumia as the DIP begins to disband without even taking the proposition from the government. It seemed a lot of the members were simply conservative masses that were looking for a stronger government that would react as well as find solutions. Many filter back into less extreme conservative causes however a small grass roots group continue the DIP more as a drinking and debating club rather than any real threat. In fact In fact the released documents from Corustaria have led to a greater slide away from the DIP as a new group forms. Simply th Anti-Corustarian Party. This is a very popular movement now that is trying to legally block Corustaria out of the nation entirely. However this has led to a paramilitary group by the same name forming in the nation. It numbers only a few hundred to a thousand men but has friends within the police and has so far gotten away with the attack on Corustarian merchants and, most noticeably, the firebombing of the Corustarian Royal Business Ministry. A black, stripped out pile of rubble remains. Alongside a letter to “The People of Corustaria”. It simply says…
“F*** off and leave our country alone.”

In the Iria Queendom things have turned from bad to worse. The religious groups have responded to the Manifesto of Convocation by burning down a tax office in a remote town. This was followed by the stoning of a number of town halls in other villages. The groups has asked that the Queen head a summet to discuss a way out of the conflict however each group has also, privately, requested that she support their power. Each one desires the banning of the other religions and that the leaders that appear are arrested and executed for their crimes against their respective deities.

Finally the conflict between Futtan and Dkkan has subsided once more. Whilst no truce has been reached the armies are, once again, at a stalemate. The DMZ is being demilitarized, mostly out of the cost to occupy dead land rather than a desire for peace. Each nation is requesting a summit to discuss a future. They also request that Asghard and the United Vanjanan Empire send a representative to keep the peace, as two of the nearby powers.